[OT] decentralized "cloud" storage - Opinions

Fonntuggnio <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:59:39 +0200
Newsgroups alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.linux
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
while starting some research about IPFS (interplanetary file 
system)
I've come across this "project"

https://wildland.io/

Does anybody ever heard of ?
If so, what do you think of it ?

Is it a "trustless" (= no trust needed at all) storage ?

I'm reading that, while decentralized cloud encrypt and 
split files and store chunks over PCs elsewhere (I still 
have to figure out which of the many connected to the net is 
"eligible" to store : my only previous experience was the 
SEEDING in bittorrent, which seemed rather unreliable since 
once one has had enough, they simply stop seeding and parts 
of files may become unavailable).
But it seems that some central server (to balance the load, 
to assign bandwidths, track the hashes, assign storage 
quotas to nodes ... maybe determine if they warrant what 
they promise by some bonus/malus mechanism) is still needed.

If that is true, it is not entirely decentralized and 
"unstoppable" system.

What do you think of this ?

Any site to get better documented ?

TNX



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